Activity
A Real Life Information Cycle
He is a biologist and professor emeritus at ODU who has been working on ticks since the 1950s when he published his dissertation on a particular bat tick in 1959. He has written one of the most authoritative works The Biology of Ticks (1991), as well as several other books, research reports, and scholarly articles.
Dr. Sonenshine has an IDEA about how to control the tick population: could a decoy tick (a bead), implanted with female pheromones, attract male ticks and then kill them?
This idea begins an information cycle. Below are publications representing further steps in the cycle. Place a number from 1-5 in front of the citation indicating where it belongs in the cycle. [NOTE: The dates were left out so as not to make it too easy!]
. Sonenshine, DE, & Mather, TN. Ecological dynamics of tick-borne zoonoses. New York: Oxford University Press.
. Allan SA, Barre N, Sonenshine DE, Burridge MJ. Efficacy of tags impregnated with pheromone and acaricide for control of Amblyomma variegatum. Medical and veterinary entomology 12(2):141-150.
. He confers with colleagues and other experts, as well as with student researchers at ODU. They correspond through email, memos, conversations = the INVISIBLE COLLEGE.
. "Ticks." Encyclopedia of Entomology v. 3. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic.
. Sonenshine, DE. Pheromonal disruption of reproduction in ticks using the decoy system: project report. Richmond, VA: Center for Innovative Technology, Institute of Biotechnology, VCU.
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